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Skimmers just aren't Deep Strikers. They are pretty much very similar to your Star Wars' hover bikes from Return of the Jedi. They skim the ground, maybe a little higher but they aren't flyers. There really is no reason for Deep Strike, even fluffwise, for a skimmer to get Deep Strike without another means of deployment (i.e. Landspeeders deploying from Thunderhawks).

I think you are confusing a skimmer with a flyer.

nope, I get the difference, but again if the logic applies to 1 it can be applied to all. However, I don't expect to see all skimmers get deep strike when their new codexes come out.

Fail troll is fail.

I would say this thread should have gone into Proposed Rules, though the catch-all Discussion already mentioned obviously works as well. Asking it here was just asking to get everyone assuming you're looking for something.


I think it's fairly clear fluff-wise that there's nothing about being a skimmer that implies you should be able to Deep Strike. Vehicles working off ground effect (sort of like surfing a cushion of air rather than true lift-based flight), hovercraft, big tanks with just enough grav power to float, small speeders without the shielding to survive atmospheric re-entry, etc., there's tons of reasons why not every skimmer should be able to Deep Strike.

There are many, many reasons why one type of unit has abilities that a similar type of unit in another codex doesn't, chief amongst those reasons being army balance and focusing on the way the unit is supposed to function within the army's prescribed tactics.

So in the case of a Landspeeder, Space Marines use them in a scouting role and drop them from orbit behind enemy lines. That's the role the vehicle functions in.


In the case of Eldar and Tau tanks, for example, that isn't the combat doctrine that those vehicles utilize, so the rules are written not allowing them to Deep Strike regardless of technically whether or not they are 'capable' of performing a similar maneuver.


Of course, these combat doctrines are often changed with updates to the codices, so in future revisions we may well see all skimmers gaining the Deep Strike ability, but for the time being GW wants to emphasize the extra mobility of only certain skimmers (Land Speeders, Valkyries, Stormravens, etc) and therefore only gives Deep Strike to those particular Skimmers.


And I'm locking this thread as the question has been amply answered and is mainly now just random bickering for no apparent reason.